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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.\" 2005-06-16 mtk, mentioned freopen()
.\" 2007-12-08, mtk, Converted from mdoc to man macros
.\"
-.TH stdin 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH stdin 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
stdin, stdout, stderr \- standard I/O streams
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "extern FILE *" stdin ;
.BI "extern FILE *" stdout ;
.BI "extern FILE *" stderr ;
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ but might instead refer to files or other devices, depending on what
the parent process chose to set up.
(See also the "Redirection" section of
.BR sh (1).)
-.PP
+.P
The input stream is referred to as "standard input"; the output stream is
referred to as "standard output"; and the error stream is referred to
as "standard error".
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ used to refer to these files, namely
.IR stdout ,
and
.IR stderr .
-.PP
+.P
Each of these symbols is a
.BR stdio (3)
macro of type pointer to
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ and can be used with functions like
.BR fprintf (3)
or
.BR fread (3).
-.PP
+.P
Since
.IR FILE s
are a buffering wrapper around UNIX file descriptors, the
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ interface, that is, the functions like
.BR read (2)
and
.BR lseek (2).
-.PP
+.P
On program startup, the integer file descriptors
associated with the streams
.IR stdin ,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ are defined with these values in
.BR freopen (3)
to one of these streams can change the file descriptor number
associated with the stream.)
-.PP
+.P
Note that mixing use of
.IR FILE s
and raw file descriptors can produce
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ This means for example, that after an
.BR exec (3),
the child inherits all open file descriptors, but all old streams
have become inaccessible.
-.PP
+.P
Since the symbols
.IR stdin ,
.IR stdout ,
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ The standard streams are closed by a call to
and by normal program termination.
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
-.PP
+.P
The standards also stipulate that these three
streams shall be open at program startup.
.SH HISTORY